Archive
- 2012
- February
- Groundbreaking decision in Runescape case: virtual items can be stolen
- Zynga’s game ‘evolutions’ accused of plagiarism
- Ziggo and XS4All will appeal court order to block The Pirate Bay
- Google follows Twitter: Country specific NTD to comply with local law
- EC presents roadmap on the revision of the IPR Enforcement Directive
- The Pirate Bay combines file sharing and 3D-printing: an interesting mix
- Apple removes 'fake' apps from App Store
- ECJ clarifies the ‘temporary reproduction’ exemption in EU copyright law
- Megaupload programmer granted bail on the condition internet access is blocked
- Warner Music: streaming services generated turnover of $15 million in 2011
- ACTAs future in danger due to protests in many European cities
- Towards flexible copyright in the Netherlands
- EC presents Roadmap “Digital Agenda- Mid Term Review”
- Newest software makes creating ebooks at home easy
- ECJ: No general monitoring responsibility for social networks
- Dutch Criminal Court condemns suspect for illegal film distribution
- French Three Strikes Act seems to be successful
- Picture sharing network Pinterest offers opt-out to copyright holders
- The European Commission refers ACTA to the European Court of Justice
- January
- Hosting provider GoDaddy loses 70.000 costumers
- Happy new year (and a new set up for the blog)
- Concerns about copyright on medical health test
- The rise of e-books piracy
- Free newspapers with new iPad application
- Popular orphan computer games cause copyright complications
- Call for evidence on the feasibility of a Digital Copyright Exchange launched in the UK
- Why a download levy is a really bad idea
- Swedish government allows ‘Kopimism’ as a religion
- Dutch Green Party longs for minister Rosenthal’s points of view on SOPA
- Spanish government starts adjusting their private copying levy system
- Chinese authors sue Apple due to sale of illegal e-books
- U.S. Research launched to avoid high legal fees regarding individual copyright claims
- Founder NinjaVideo site sentenced to 22 months in prison
- Canadian public consultation on extending the protection of copyright from 50 to 70 years
- Construction industry is largest sector to use illegal software worldwide
- BREAKING: Ziggo and XS4ALL obliged to block The Pirate Bay
- No illegal downloads by the Dutch Parliament
- European Commission wishes to broaden notice & takedown procedures
- Controversial DNS blocking provision possibly deleted from SOPA
- RIAA is going after BitTorrent website TorrentHound.net
- Dutch Populist Party wishes Parliamentary intervention in BREIN vs XS4ALL/Ziggo ruling
- Proposal to adopt copyright radio model on the internet
- FBI shuts down Megaupload.com because of copyright infringement
- Legislative actions on PIPA and SOPA proposals postponed
- Dutch Secretary of Justice responds to questions on copyright reform plans
- Belgian Green parties propose ‘global license’ on copyright protected works
- IFPI optimistic about growth of digital music market
- 'A radio model for internet is naive'
- Twitter to remove unlawful tweets: threat to free speech or the reality of internet business?
- EU Commission: abolishment of private copying levy may infringe EU legislation
- Pictoright signs deal on reuse of images with clipping companies
- February
- 2011
- December
- Illegal downloading: to forbid or not to forbid? That’s the question!
- French film studios demand blocking of illegal streaming sites
- Spotify offers extern developers opportunity to create applications
- The Netherlands Competition Authority aspires more competition regarding e-books
- Increasing sales of audio products generated by internet
- Web designer guilty of unauthorized exploitation of copyright protected works
- ACTA does not entail obligatory implementation of “Three Strikes”
- E-book substitutes paper book in Germany
- Radical game development: large-scaled game developers copy games from independent studios
- Dutch film industry calls on Parliament to vote for ‘download prohibition’
- Possible illegal price agreements between Apple and e-book publishers
- Payment provider has to hand over personal and bank account data to BREIN
- U.S. advertising network acquitted of copyright infringement
- Majority Dutch Parliament against ‘download prohibition’
- Music streaming service Deezer now available in the Netherlands
- France adjusts private copy exception according to EC requirements
- E-books to borrow in Dutch library as of late 2012
- U.S. government returns seized domain
- Download and streaming market has a turnover of €33 million in 2011
- Rightsflow helps YouTube to guarantee copyrights
- UAE government wishes to adjust intellectual property legislation
- Website reveals IP addresses of torrentdownloaders as a ‘joke’
- After Spotify and Deezer, Rara launches music service in the Netherlands
- Republicans amend SOPA proposal after criticism
- Controversy around SOPA proposal continues
- Dutch Minister Verhagen is free to discuss signing ACTA
- Chinese video sites clash over copyrights
- United Kingdom proposes to modernise copyright
- The UN and the IMF pressure ICANN to prevent cybersquatting of domain names
- Senators want to introduce the resale right in the U.S.
- Game developer targets German illegal file sharers
- 'Three-strikes' system may no longer be used in Ireland
- Dutch weblog GeenStijl sued for linking to Britt Dekker’s Playboy pictures
- American sentenced to one year in prison for uploading X-Men movie
- Dutch Parliament: report on General Consultation Copyrights
- SOPA debate postponed to January next year
- BlackBerry music service launched in the Netherlands
- Spanish novelist quits writing books due to illegal copies
- Freemium apps are the trend of 2011
- Does Apple’s Newsstand boost digital subscription rates?
- November
- Google Maps to charge heavy users
- Dutch Independent Arbitration Commission for Copyrights starting today
- New Zealand ISPs receive first notices to enforce 'three strike' law
- YouTube film for sale on DVD
- E-readers encourage growing illegal market for e-books
- Another founder of NinjaVideo pleads guilty to copyright infringement
- Creative sector contributes to economic growth in the U.S.
- PhonepayPlus to combat online copyright infringement
- Counterfeit products of Angry Birds inspire new retail strategy
- British ISP urged to block The Pirate Bay
- Usenet provider News-Service Europe ends activities
- American music industry unhappy with courts ruling on DMCA
- Dutch video rental chain Ster starts gaming-on-demand service
- Music streaming service Deezer launched in Belgium
- Disney and YouTube announce partnership
- Act illusionist Hans Klok evaporates due to copyright protected routines
- Bohemia Games aims for positive sampling effect through friendly DRM
- Dutch Labour Party argues against abolition of Dutch private copy levy in Brussels
- Court hearing BREIN and ISPs Ziggo/XS4ALL: obliged to block The Pirate Bay?
- After BT other British ISPs also urged to block Newzbin2
- Italian Guardia di Finanza takes down five illegal file sharing sites
- Belgian collecting society asks ISPs to compensate copyrights online
- "ECJ ruling on private copying levy could lead to 'double dipping'"
- BREIN orders takedown of illegal Australian TV torrentsite
- Dutch filmmakers complain about use of their film titles in comics
- Adele’s album downloaded one million times in Europe
- Danish anti-piracy organisation demands blockade streaming site Grooveshark
- European Parliament votes on European net neutrality
- Google Music to compete with iTunes
- Top-level domain.xxx registered mostly by schools
- European Parliament wishes lower tax rate on digital cultural goods
- Spotify loses artists as a result of low fees
- Kroes dissatisfied with current European copyright system
- This year e-books sales nearly doubled compared to last year
- Chinese search engine Baidu again accused of copyright infringements
- Singapore Press Holdings sues Yahoo! over copyright infringement
- ECJ Scarlet vs SABAM: “General monitoring obligation for ISPs is not compatible with EU law”
- Google expands search results filter with file sharing sites
- European politicians debate about VAT and the price of e-books
- Dutch unions: legalize illegal filesharing, introduce copyright levy on internet
- Australian ISPs are taking action to combat online piracy
- German supplier can no longer deliver CDs and DVDs without paying private copying levy
- More ISP’s urged to block The Pirate Bay in Finland
- U.S. government seizes 131 websites with counterfeit products
- Hadopi starts consultation for new legal measures against illegal file sharing sites
- Buma/Stemra and IMPALA launch one-stop shop for licenses
- Belgian Court of Appeal prefers DNS blocking over IP blocking
- Dutch government and Parliament disagree on how to update copyright law
- October
- Dutch BREIN wins lawsuit against major European Usenet Provider
- First iPad newspaper unsuccessful
- German collecting society GEMA faces fraud charges
- WIPO to draft international treaty on the protection of audiovisual works
- German politician violates own two strikes out bill
- Belgian access providers to block access to The Pirate Bay
- 'Three strikes' policy in France is paying off
- Kroes: Coordinated policy across EU crucial to develop common market for digital content
- Deezer integrates in Facebook’s social networkplatform
- European Court of Justice sets copyright framework for football broadcasts
- BAF: 1,3 million illegal files removed from the internet
- The Pirate Bay bypasses Belgian court order
- Dutch state secretary Teeven reacts on policy priority brief Copyright 20©20
- Dutch newspaper launches merchandising stunt around Dutch artists
- Removing DRM leads to reduction of infringing file sharing?
- Dutch MP proposes new 'super authority' to monitor collecting societies
- Dutch violinist André Rieu conquers Mexican charts despite piracy
- Anti-piracy company makes illegal copy of Deus Ex to trick free riding gamers
- British report on the importance of open internet
- Dutch lingerie brand Sapph admits copyright infringement on Marlies Dekkers designs
- Journalists criticise proposal on the revision of copyright in Germany
- Interview with Robert Levine on the current free ride culture on the internet
- Belgian webcrawler takes down links to illegal copies of books and comics
- Proposal to clarify the Australian Copyright Act
- Swedish Court confirms jail sentence of missing Pirate Bay founder
- Belgian choreographer demands ban on music video Beyoncé
- Criminal charge against Chinese website for copyright infringement
- YouTube offers new business model for artists
- High level event on the future of EU regulation of online world coming up
- Linking to copyright protected works is a criminal offence according to Spanish Court
- Digital subscriptions of The Times and The Sunday Times increased by 10%
- BSA wishes higher fines for copyright infringement on software
- Google to launch its own music store
- Free Justin Bieber! (Campaign against Bill S.987)
- Supreme Court of Canada: No Liability for Linking
- Traditional music album makes comeback with smartphone app
- MC Hammer: ‘Stop……search engine time!’
- Public Dutch TV platform changes into freemium business model
- Belgian taxi drivers must pay royalties for using the radio
- Dutch provider KPN offers Spotify for free
- Gartner identifies top 10 strategic technologies for 2012
- EDPS expresses concerns regarding the European piracy database
- Freelance journalists benefit from joining copyright collecting society
- Belgian ISPs to block illegal gambling sites
- U.S. Copyright Office states projects for the 21st century
- Russia sues couple for copyright infringement worth 1,2 billion dollars
- Dutch independent music companies join forces in foundation STOMP
- European case law on blocking of illegal file sharing sites
- Dutch provider Ziggo to launch own streaming music service
- EU and Taiwan discuss collaboration on copyright protection
- ISP British Telecom to pay costs for blocking website Newzbin2
- September
- Brazilian Ministry of Justice sends new Internet Law to the National Congress
- Digitization of newspapers runs into copyright conflict
- Comic book about copyrights
- Do American artists have a legitimate claim to terminate their copyright licensing agreements?
- Streaming service Juke competes with Spotify
- Music stores disappear from the streets of Amsterdam
- Chinese battle against piracy and counterfeited goods continues
- Authors hesitate to embrace e-books
- Coca-Cola Zero and Sony PlayStation launch new gaming platform
- Dutch entertainment sector discusses digital distribution of creative content
- Commission reveals results of public consultation on the draft directive on orphan works
- Orange and Cogent fight over traffic management before French competition watchdog
- ICM Registry opened registration of top level domain .xxx
- UK government presents policy package on the reform of IP law
- Exclusive soundtrack Batman game only available as download
- EU debate on extending term of copyright protection may benefit artists
- Music leads the way on the bike through revolutionary app
- Amazon to introduce e-book library
- Miniature version of Dutch soccer stadium infringes copyrights
- EU extends term of protection for music recordings to 70 years
- FCC introduces net neutrality rules in the US
- UK government puts pressure on Google to hinder search for filesharing platforms
- Provocative cartoons of Miffy are legitimate parodies
- Dutch BREIN foundation counts on payment providers to tackle illegal file sharing sites
- UK Secretary of Culture calls on internet firms to take action against illegal fileharing sites
- Successful co-operation between EU and China to protect intellectual property
- US Court: Google requires license from Oracle to use Java
- Spotify sees cars as potential platform to expand
- Dutch video-on-demand-service will be launched on TV
- National Library of the Netherlands reveals agreement with Google on digitization of books
- Pirate party elected in the Berlin Parliament
- US Appeal court: $675000,- fine for sharing 30 illegal music files is reasonable
- 95% of BitTorrent files infringe copyrights according to AFACT
- Berlusconi’s party proposes ‘one strike out’ bill to fight intellectual property infringement
- WIPO releases recent IP statistics
- Dutch film sector embraces crowd funding and crowd sourcing
- Wall Street Journal introduces News App on Facebook
- Dutch National Library placed World War II newspapers on their succesful newspaper site
- Magazine published on law and fashion
- Court grants punitive damages in Dutch copyright case
- British ISPs take action against illegal file sharing sites
- Founder NinjaVideo site pleads guilty after ‘Operation In Our Sites’ investigation
- Digitization of the Dutch entertainment and media industry
- Cyberlockers: the new frontier for pirates?
- Copyright infringement: pay ten dollars or go to court
- European Digital Agenda Conference in Brussels on October 3rd
- European Court of Justice clarifies rules on use of adwords
- Pathé starts partnership with Samsung to launch VOD-service
- EU, Switzerland and Mexico will not sign ACTA yet
- Canada reintroduces copyright bill
- August
- The Chinese have cloned an entire Ikea store
- Aim4Music forbidden to distribute Dutch music
- Online trading of theses and scientific papers uncovered
- File-hosting giant MegaUpload guilty of direct infringement
- Marvel wins battle around popular comic book characters
- UK withdraws plan to block illegal filesharing sites
- Pathé cinemas enter VOD-market in the Netherlands
- 60% of the Chilean population cherishes intellectual property rights
- Authors and press publishers worry about making a living in the digital age
- Band Blink-182 rewards fans that illegally upload content
- Perfect10 loses lawsuit against Google
- No consensus on EU's new IPR Directive
- Google Books closes deal with France’s largest publisher
- Dutch hackers brought before criminal court for breaking into servers and installing file sharing software
- North Korea makes money in online games
- Indonesia fights against illegal downloading
- American telecom operators stop unlimited mobile internet consumption
- Facebook launches new app: Facebook Messenger
- From now on it’s ‘three strikes and you’re out’ in New Zealand
- Hulu prefers expanding to Japan in stead of Europe
- Are you allowed to expose your robber on YouTube?
- UK considers monitoring social media due to riots
- Cher ‘believed’ and was proven right by the Dutch judge
- Does BBC violate copyrights via Twitter?
- Special fashion law to protect American fashion-industry
- German Court: No bonus for dubbing actor if film becomes blockbuster
- 'Forgotten' provision in U.S. copyright law offers creators possibility to reclaim rights after 35 years
- Dutch Court: copyright infringement despite permission publisher
- SPA joins Pan European Digital Licensing initiative
- UK eases copyright on scientific works, but how relaxed should copyright be?
- YouTube closes deal with National Music Publishers Association
- Research: ISPs profit from BitTorrent traffic
- Ticket service creates innovative business model for artists
- Artist Bassnectar sees leaked album as an honor
- Google gets another penalty for violating privacy laws
- Digitization by the National Library of the Netherlands continues
- New York Court sets legal framework for cloud-based music services
- Should hosters or ISP’s just handover your personal data?
- American ISP’s take action against online piracy
- Australia one step closer towards Three Strikes?
- Open source publishing is boosting R&D in Europe
- Japanese download site sued for violating copyrights
- Dutch court condemns hackers for copyright infringement
- Digitization of ‘orphan works’ in the US
- Google Books reaches deal with French publisher La Martinière
- Man infringes copyrights due to unlawfully publishing educational books
- Sharing the facts: how to move forward with copyright law in the Netherlands?
- Spotify on its way to be profitable over 2010
- Dutch radio station removes podcasts due to conflict with Buma/Stemra
- Belgian tv stations disagree on football broadcasting rights
- Parliamentary questions raised about dominant position Buma/Stemra
- False copyright claim on music videos from YouTube
- Founders of The Pirate Bay launch new file sharing service: BayFiles
- July
- Mubi offers latest Spike Jonze film for free online
- Australian ISPs hesitant to join government filtering initiative
- Dutch newspaper Nederlands Dagblad follows the trend and launches Paywall
- Belgian politicians suggest government should support struggling music sector
- Video chat on Facebook?
- ECJ confirms legality of private copying levies, but their application raises practical concerns
- AARP and Concord Music Group hope to reach Woodstock generation with simple online radio service
- Employees of Spanish collecting society SGAE face fraud charges
- German parliamentary committee pleads for legalizing downloads from illegal sources
- New EU Consumer Rights Directive prescribes transparent Digital Rights Management
- Eminem sells one million digital copies with album Recovery
- Anti-piracy efforts of gaming industry have been very succesful last year
- US ISP’s agree to Copyright Alert System
- Unwritten book already number 1 on Amazon’s bestsellers list
- Popular Dutch soccer site Eredivisielive.nl launches new business model
- "German Bundestag eases copyright protection for scientific use"
- Swedish 'Kopimism' is not a religion
- European Telco’s launch new business model
- Spanish debate on net neutrality resembles recent Dutch discussions
- AFACT demands graduate response system in Australia
- Spotify to enter "uninteresting" Belgian market this summer
- China says their copyright enforcement mission is completed
- Music streaming service 22Tracks expands to 22 countries
- French Three Strikes: half a million warnings sent as First Strike
- Spanish private copying levy system under debate
- Court of Appeal Rome: no monitoring requirement for hosting provider Yahoo
- Should ISP’s pay the enforcement costs of Three Strikes in New Zealand?
- US government persists in domain names seizures
- Finland demands ISP to block access to The Pirate Bay
- Chinese search engine Baidu launches online music service
- ICM allows companies to prevent their name from appearing on .XXX domain
- Lady Gaga’s YouTube channel blocked due to copyright infringement
- German court: Quality of files determines whether ISP should expose illegal filesharers
- Amazon closes deal with CBS and competes with Netflix
- Indian ISPs block access to major filesharing sites
- Chilean telecom regulator starts enforcing new law on net neutrality
- Relevant Dutch case law on copyright of news media
- Fake Apple Store uncovered in China
- New York Times has more than 1 million paid online readers
- Growing market for entertainment products in the Netherlands
- Nollywood film producers sign anti-piracy pact with Ugandan movie industry
- Swedish court: higher compensation for copyright violation due to filesharing
- Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter boosts creative business online
- Paypal stops payments to file sharing sites
- Scope of new EU directive on orphan works subject of debate
- Appeal Court Amsterdam: are websites responsible for Google's search results?
- London High Court: blocking an illegal website is a proportionate measure
- Forty percent of mobile internet traffic is video streaming
- Grandma (70) accused of illegally downloading porn through BitTorrent
- June
- Simfy launches music player on Facebook
- McAfee reports increase of illegal filesharing from the Netherlands
- Stealing "entertainment services" now a crime in Tennessee
- Price differentiation of mobile internet services definitely terminated?
- Free Hollywood films via Hulu
- Sony again victims of hackers
- Three strikes breaches human rights?
- Considerati brings clarity into the download debate
- Kaiser Chiefs introduce revolutionary business model for digital music
- Internet providers have to contribute according to Sabam
- Net neutrality in the Netherlands? Today the Parliament debates.
- Lady Gaga starts new network site: Backplane
- Net neutrality almost legislated in the Netherlands
- WIPO announces music rights registry project for Africa
- Video on demand increasingly popular in The Netherlands
- Dutch filmstudio believes there's money in free distribution of content
- US govt maintains policy of stricter copyright enforcement
- Can tv formats finally count on copyright protection?
- EU Commissioner Kroes: A single digital market is the future of copyright
- European collecting societies want download fee from ISPs
- Major Dutch newspaper sets up paywall for their website
- First website to appeal U.S. domain name seizure
- Canadian BitTorrent user fined $60,000 by U.S. Court
- Nintendo is not interested in free or 'cheap' products
- Consultation round opened for new copyright act in Sweden
- The world’s best-paid musicians go on the road
- British student faces extradition to US over copyright infringement
- Trademarks get their own internet extension
- BitTorrent sued again: Does BT software infringe patents?
- Settlement over infringing Mike Tyson tattoo in Hangover II
- News website Huffington Post conquers the world with remarkable business model
- Amendments to Dutch Telecom law codify net neutrality and restrict the use of cookies
- Snipper replaces YouTube by revolutionary video-App
- Entertainment industry and ISPs set up ‘Graduated Response’ plan to combat piracy
- Mexico against controversial ACTA
- Dutch Copyright Contracts Bill: Secretary Teeven drops non-transferability and five year termination right provisions
- Major French newspaper sets up paywall
- JK Rowling realises there’s money in e-books and opens online Harry Potter store
- Dutch MPs say: ‘Cookie law’ is not the end of the world for free websites
- Spotify launches in the U.S.
- French Socialist Party against Three Strikes
- Theft of virtual goods is a criminal offense, according to Dutch Court
- Mortal Kombat experiments with prepaid and downloadable extra content
- Google offers an alternative to Facebook: Google+
- Dutch telecom operator changes prices for mobile internet in response to new telecom law
- MPAA supports Dutch plans of Secretary Teeven regarding copyright policy
- May
- Online bookstore Bol.com considers "Spotify-model” for ebooks
- Successful UK startup Songkick focuses on live music
- Embedding of radiostreams leads to copyright questions in Dutch parliament
- Webstats unsure of on the influence of movie streaming services on file-sharing
- WikiLeaks reveils US lobby for stronger IP enforcement in Canada
- Dutch hosting provider Leaseweb receives takedown notice from Bollywood
- US Court: IP-address does not identify individual Internet user
- RapidShare expands webstore and starts selling games
- Local news works for Telegraaf Media Groep
- Facebook will pay users to watch commercials
- Spotify Open to challenge Apple hegemony
- Judge: Tiësto not guilty of plagiarism
- Copyright on Irish national anthem falls into the public domain
- US publishers to create book portal
- Google News must delete links to Belgian newspapers
- "Google will launch music streaming in the cloud this week"
- Patronism gives willing fans patron status
- YouTube expands movie rental service
- Buma-Stemra's annual report shows transformation of entertainment business
- Google keeps on introducing new media services
- BSA supports Dutch government's new approach to copyright enforcement
- Users prefer tablet screens over paper for reading
- Chinese government closes down fake Disneyland park
- BPI: Digital music sales pass magic £1 billion boundary
- Dutch Premier League clubs take streaming site offline
- Cinemac: Innovative movietheater gives cinema experience new boost
- Hadopi investigator hacked, may have consequences for enforcement
- “Amazon about to launch their own tablet computer”
- For profitability, Spotify needs tenfold increase in membership
- UPC Austria needs to make unlawful site unavailable to clients
- Legal content rules: real time entertainment tops file-sharing in North American traffic
- Spanish e-book service exports Spotify model to the Netherlands
- Dutch MPs criticise network management by ISPs
- Facebook will scan profiles for missing and abused children
- Hargreaves review panel presents view on the future of copyright in the UK
- Dutch music retailers launch new marketing campaign to promote music sales
- Apple closes licensing deals for the launch of new music streaming service
- Survey suggests e-book piracy may become worse than music piracy
- There's money in dusty archives
- “Facebook and Spotify to integrate social network and streaming music service”
- New EU strategy on IP law: more focus on enforcement
- New Internet regulation in India food for thought
- Microsoft appalled by software piracy in China
- Dutch MP says: "Public broadcasting stations should contribute to Internet platform for video on demand"
- "Twitter to launch photo sharing service"
- 'Facebook profiles contain as much as €15.000 worth of copyrighted content'
- April
- ECJ asked to advise on jurisdiction issue concerning internet publishing
- Digital innovation in the comic industry
- Charity album 'Songs For Japan' is an instant hit in the download charts
- Chinese govt. maintains strict approach to piracy and counterfeited goods
- Gamestop to stream games to tablets
- Oops... Saudi Airlines shows pirated content
- Movie studios disagree with new streaming service’s business model
- 'If your album isn't leaked, people are not interested'
- Financial Times protests Apple’s bid to take over billing relations
- Music sites, Google and Facebook to French court over data retention
- Italian Court orders Google to remove defamatory search suggestions
- Californian senator proposes bill for obligatory ‘do not track’ function in browsers
- Google in the sights of antitrust enforcers in the US, too
- Digital Economy Act delayed by 10 months
- First websites request 'Hadopi legal offer' logo
- Conflicting Belgian copyright bills: three strikes out vs. compulsory licenses
- Dutch government presents new policy on copyright
- British libraries do not get harvesting access to paywalled content after all
- #tigerblood #winning: Charlie Sheen claims IP rights
- New York Times behind a paywall: what are the consequences?
- How Dutch artists think about digital developments
- New Zealand file-sharing bill passes second reading in Parliament
- American songwriters unhappy with net neutrality rules
- Spotify halves its free lunch
- AG European Court: a measure that requires ISPs to filter and block the internet to protect intellectual property rights violates fundamental rights
- Tablets and the battle for the viewers
- YouTube Copyright School
- Dutch Parliament not yet convinced about proposed ban on downloading
- French senators want extra liability regime for new type of ISP
- DVD still way more popular than digital distribution
- Google under fire for removing Grooveshark app
- Ebooks taking a larger and larger share of the book publishing market
- Dutch Court: €1000 fine per illegal copy or one day in jail for 10 copies
- High court: Digital Economy Act proportionate and in line with European law
- Kiwis to protest ‘sneaky three strikes legislation
- Brazilian minister reveils copyright revision plans
- 23 April: UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day
- Apps take bite from turnover KPN
- The Wrap: YouTube about to launch large scale VoD service
- World Intellectual Property Day
- China steps up IP protection, but still a long way to go
- India expands possibilities to remove/block internet content
- Hilarious and thought-provoking article on file-sharing/printing money
- Playstation Network hack results in lawsuit
- Copyright conflict between Mediaset and YouTube intensifies
- Photo’s and documents of tornado victims posted on Facebook
- March
- Interactive documentary 'Out My Window' nominated for Emmy Award
- YouTube generates the necessary revenues for record labels
- US place torrent sites on list of “notorious markets”
- Apple maintains their claim to exclusive use of the name 'app store'
- Over 25% of record stores in The Netherlands closed down in the last 10 years
- Dutch ISP XS4ALL offers new TV and VOD service
- 'Music is a service, not a product'
- Portuguese Government Creates Honeypot To Combat Piracy
- Wizkid develops new software at home, but employer gets the copyrights
- Dutch MPs condemn shady contracts on music royalties
- E-book readers: it’s your week this week!
- Dutch Minister of Justice says filter against child pornography is no longer necessary
- Dutch ISP blocks alternative smtp-servers on port 25 to combat spam
- Movie streaming service Netflix is growing faster than ever
- Warner Brothers start pilot with movie viewing via Facebook
- Vodafone and O2 accused of Big Brother practices
- Welcome to our new website
- Spotify has 1 million paying users
- Commentary on Brein vs Ziggo (Pirate Bay) judgement
- Adult industry fears .xxx top level domains
- Blog dialogue between Future of Copyright and Ius Mentis is now available in print
- European Commissioner Kroes addresses orphan works issue
- Fraudulent in-app purchases in iOS reach 40%, says developer
- Flickr removes pictures of secret agents
- British review panel to report on updates of IP law needed to boost innovation and new online business
- Dutch publisher introduces “scratch e-book”: the next generation of e-books is made of paper
- 'Open source software offers government only limited potential to save money'
- British minister praises self regulation by ISPs to block criminal content, but ISPs hesitate to expand its scope
- U.S. IP Enforcement Coordinator proposes sweeping legal changes
- Free films in exchange for consumer data and attention
- Report: piracy in emerging economies best countered with pricing strategies
- WIPO Director General addresses future of copyright
- ICANN approves .xxx top level domain
- ACA2K reveils how copyright influences access to knowledge in Africa
- Study: streaming music overtaking ownership models in five years
- Copyright filter on SoundCloud unable to deal with mash-ups
- Chile's law on net neutrality entered into force
- Live streams of sport broadcasts facilitate copyright infringement
- Google Books settlement does not get court approval
- Sony introduces cheaper film downloads
- Study: illegal music downloads dramatically decreased since LimeWire shutdown
- AFACT takes iiNet case to the highest court
- Spotify introduces streaming of live concerts
- XXX top level domain will be blocked in India and many Islamic countries
- Belgian truck drivers must pay royalties for listening to the radio
- UK Report: music industry should embrace technological innovation
- US Court: distribution of digital tracks is about licensing, not sales
- Amazon introduces music streaming in the cloud
- Canadian ISPs use ‘behavioral billing’ to discourage heavy Internet use
- Paris Court of Appeal adopts monitoring obligation for Google
- Amazon: "We don't need music licenses for Cloud Player"
- February
- Imax movie theatres are ready for the digital future
- 23.8% of global internet traffic involves the illegal distribution of copyrighted work
- Emergence of e-books transforms book market and raises interesting legal questions
- (European) ISPs want more cash for (American) data-intensive services
- Is Perfect 10 fighting for another lost cause?
- Yahoo vs. Belgium: Must Yahoo hand over client details to Belgian authorities?
- .Movie extension as a quality mark for legal content
- TV on demand by Film1 and Sport1 competes surprisingly strong with downloads
- Future Of Music Coalition to study artist revenue streams
- Japanese research intstitute: YouTube stimulates anime DVD sales
- Google says Microsoft Bing copies their search results
- Hollywood caught Google Headquarters downloading torrents
- 'European Parliament must promote the use of open source software'
- Sony steps up offensive against PS3 hackers
- Dutch court orders filesharing newsgroup FTD to remove links to copyright-protected downloads
- Increasing use of new media encourages reading of 'old-fashion' books
- TuneSecure introduces intelligent anti-piracy software, but are we still interested?
- Dutch blog was ordered to remove video, but the internet keeps remembering it
- BSA vs. illegal software users: ‘Expose your boss and earn €10.000,-'
- MPAA files suit against cyberlocker Hotfile
- New Radiohead album available to download for 7 euros
- ‘Filesharing community FTD throws in the towel after Dutch court ruling’
- IIPA provides input for US Trade Representative on copyright enforcement
- EP does not require Member States to use Internet filter
- Warner introduces App Editions: Movies for your mobile device
- Record label G-Unit offers new talent an online opportunity in the spotlights
- ‘Offering free content, supported by advertising is the key to combat piracy’
- Producer of Killzone 3 does not worry about piracy too much
- 'Help Dragon Age II reach one million downloads and get bonus items for the game'
- Google aims to strike at Apple by reaching publishers a hand
- Cinecrowd introduces crowd funding in Dutch cinema
- Hotfile takes steps against infringing uploaders
- Swedish judge sets new standard for file sharing penalties: €5 per stolen track
- Dutch Filmworks introduces film app for iPad
- Dutch newspaper gives away free copies of George Clooney's blockbuster ‘The American’
- Spotify highly valuated in move to American market
- Dutch entertainment industry reports deteriorating sales figures
- Warner Bros. announces European Championships of Mortal Kombat
- AFACT vs. iiNet: ISP not liable for copyright infringing acts of their customers
- Close to Oscar award ceremony, Inception dubious winner of most popular downloaded title
- Adult industry makes the shift from suing file sharers to listening to them
- Ajax-channel on YouTube is blocked after copyright complaints from UEFA
- British government fears increase of litigation as result of anti piracy act.
- Japanese publishers act against “home cooked” digitisation
- Berlusconi in court for copyright fraud
- January
- 65% of US internet users buys content online
- French ISP increases rates, blames HADOPI
- Google may have digital newsstand in development
- Italian ISP blocking of Pirate Bay leads to significantly fewer visitors
- Can Hollywood stop filesharing through ISP terms and conditions?
- Italy to qualify VOD services as TV stations (not as hosting providers)
- Ziggo refuses to disconnect customers for copyright infringement
- Dutch VOD service Filmotech launched soon (without public broadcasters’ TV series)
- Free Record Shop complains about free records
- Protection of TV formats remains difficult in practice
- RapidShare dodges copyright allegations again
- PlayStation 3 hacked, encryption keys exposed
- China destroyes tonnes of illegal DVDs
- Will porn industry give up the legal battle against piracy?
- Dutch broadcaster RTL says home-made iPhone app infringes their copyrights
- Intel and NVIDIA close multi-million dollar deal on mutual use of IP rights
- File-sharing sites attract 53 billion visitors annually
- Magazines struggle with business models for iPad apps
- PS3 hack: Sony strikes back
- RapidShare says MarkMonitor report on piracy is defamatory
- 60% fewer streams on eMuleIsland since mass removal of links on MegaVideo
- YouTube’s innovative mobile services generate 200 million pageviews a day
- Apple's market power for apps on iPhones and iPads under pressure
- 22% of French downloaders states to have stopped because of Hadopi
- Heavy users of mobile Internet may need to pay more
- Dutch singer enjoys the fuss about free distribution of her work
- Music labels launch ‘on air on sale’ policy to combat piracy
- Dutch Telecoms authority OPTA to implement EU recommendation on Net Neutrality
- Apple allows uncensored Playboy app for iPad
- Google bans Kongregate games from Android Marketplace
- 'Future of Copyright best copyright Tweep 2010'
- 'ACTA agreement violates EU law'
- Dutch parliament postpones debate on revision of copyright law
- WikiLeaks: “American govt involved in drafting of Data Retention law in Sweden”
- Pirate Bay takes new swing at music industry with “Music Bay”
- 'Dutch market too small for iPad newspaper'
- Music Industry needs new digital services to make up for lost record sales
- ISPs and copyright holders can become business partners
- Chinese govt. declares war on file sharing
- British law firm ceases hunting downloaders
- Google filters instant search results to stop piracy
- E-book swap and lending services, allowed?
- BREIN and MPAA shut down US websites with illegal content again
- Radio CEOs register as songwriters to collect royalties for the music they broadcast
- EC announces copyright makeover this summer
- For every 100 paperbacks, Amazon sells 115 ebooks
- T-Mobile Netherlands limits internet access for smartphones at peak times
- December
- 2010
- December
- European Commission announces investigation into Google’s alleged power abuse
- China blocks access to Wikileaks
- Belgian Court: Yahoo not obliged to cooperate with identification requests
- UPDATE: Dutch government considers DPI on internet traffic
- Google takes measures against piracy
- Kinect hacked: Microsoft displeased initially, claims intent later
- Dutch Socialist Party takes part in DPI debate
- Google opens e-bookstore in the US, the rest of the world needs to be patient
- Turkey protects national anthem against copyright claims with new law
- EU Wikileaks providers refuse to take site offline unless court ordered
- Live DDoS attack on Mastercard performed on Dutch TV show
- EA has high expectations for the digital channel in 2011
- Apple dropped jailbreak detection API from iOS 4.2
- Streaming to take big bite out of DVD market, study predicts
- App store under fire for selling pirated e-books
- Dutch Brein and MPA take 29 sites offline at U.S. hosting providers
- Sharing is caring: NZ cartoonist welcomes torrent
- Second pay-what-you-want release of Wolfire Games: Humble Indie Bundle 2
- MPA demands UK ISP to block access to Newzbin
- EC extends antitrust case against Google
- Device fingerprinting the emerging tool for behavioural targeting: Socialist Party worried
- “Asking ISp for personal data is last resort” judge rules
- Court issues dismissal in case against infringing websites
- FCC reveals net neutrality plans, treats mobile and fixed very differently
- iPhone app unwittingly transmits location data
- Millionth Apple TV sold in the US
- Judge halts development of new services by public broadcasters
- Torrentfreak reviews the year in torrent searches: nearly exclusively movies and TV-series in top 20
- One more list: the twenty largest senders of DMCA notices
- Suit filed against Apple for apps sending data to advertisers
- Games pirate sentenced to 2.5 years prison and $ 350,000 damages
- November
- Porn Producer sues 8,000 file-sharers
- Dutch Amendment Bill: a transparency duty for ISPs, a notification duty for data leaks and an information duty for cookies
- UK IP law adapted to the internet era: more room for innovation and fair use
- DDoS collective 'Anonymous' targets U.S. Copyright Office website
- 'Super-pirates see themselves as internet libertarians'
- Dutch MEP calls on public for input on ACTA's draft text
- EU net neutrality consultation: industry-wide standards for transparency
- UK High Court to review Digital Economy Act: 1-0 for ISPs
- Google’s power continues to grow: travel sector starting to worry
- New Zealand ISPs voluntarily implement child abuse filter
- Court of The Hague: FTD did not violate copyright, but stimulated uploading of protected files
- Starcraft II-data is the largest slice of torrent traffic pie
- Record sales for Dutch cinemas
- Swedish court: direct link to sports game is copyright infringement
- British communications minister favours free market principles over net neutrality
- Murdoch and Jobs to present an all-tablet newspaper
- Speeds of internet subscription on offer rises considerably in The Netherlands, actual speeds increase less
- Spotify posts loss of almost 20 million euro in 2009
- ISP Ziggo transparent about procedure to counter malware and spam
- Court of Nevada doesn’t take kindly on copyright troll
- Pirate Bay founders convicted again by court of appeal
- First criminal case about console modding in the US
- October
- German collection society GEMA filing a case for principle proceedings against YouTube
- Virgin Media UK will restrict specific P2P traffic
- Independent filmmaker feels the effect of piracy
- Electronic Frontier Foundation bites back at copyright troll
- Dutch studio distributes new animated film for free over the internet
- Member of European Parliament poses critical questions on ACTA upon most recent round of negotiations
- Usenet portal FTD twice in Dutch court over copyright infringement this week
- US Library of Congress: copyright hinders preservation of old recordings
- Usenet portal FTD releases script that transforms Brein's website into torrent site
- 'Don’t meddle with the right to steal'
- France gives extra credit to legal downloaders
- Future of photography: back to the Renaissance
- Irish High Court: three strikes law not enforceable
- Cyber security to get priority in UK defense strategy
- Digital environment creates possibilities for new price mechanics
- Attack on hosting provider takes down dozen torrent sites
- Irish ISP questions identifying infringers by IP-adresses
- Worlds best DJ and MEP Sargentini (Green Party) debate the future of copyright at the Amsterdam Dance Event
- Fit over e-book deal between Dutch Central Book House and iBookstore
- Pirate Parties International toy with idea of floating file-sharing balloon
- Kindle gets limited lending system and epapers
- Netflix streams account for 20% of bandwidth in US peak hours
- Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs against French three strikes out
- LimeWire ordered to cease activities after court order
- 'Dutch youth barely buy music online'
- German court lowers damages in filesharing case
- September
- German GEMA lacks urgent interest to obtain a blocking order for YouTube content
- Piracy of DS leads to new piracy measures for 3DS says Nintendo
- Virgin to go public about average internet speed
- Swedish police cracks down on shared folder with 6000 songs
- Pirate amnesty for Machinarium is great success
- All Dutch movies and TV series accessible online
- Sony brings streaming music service to her living room devices
- Google announces TV service, week after Apple
- Europarliament wants in on ACTA – or else…
- Software producer finds court of appeals at her side in case against second hand trade
- Large scale European police action against piracy networks
- Content removal requests slowed down to escalation point
- BSA: decline in software piracy would give strong impulse to Dutch economy
- Bob Marley's family loses lawsuit over copyrights to his hit albums
- Swiss Supreme Court: monitoring, collecting and selling file-sharers' IP addresses breaches right to privacy
- Band managers on business models and the goodwill model to the test
- Norwegian research: revenue from record sales replaced by revenue from live performances
- A graduated response to copyright
- Movie premiers on Pirate Bay
- New online streaming service for film and television in Europe: Microsoft Zune
- US Senate preparing a bill to counter online copyright infringement
- Gallo Report: EC underestimates file-share problem, calls for criminal penalties and a European copyright
- Spanish Court: YouTube not liable for uploaded content and no monitoring obligation
- Super Street Fighter IV not released on PC because of piracy
- New firmware Playstation adds new functions, excludes non-Sony peripherals
- Market for digital downloads not getting bigger anymore in US
- European IT companies sign energy code of conduct
- August
- Court bans Peter Sunde from running The Pirate Bay
- New Zealand telcos aim for a mobile exemption in three strikes bill
- Board Dutch Pirate Party pressured to leave by member council
- Christian Louboutin: zero tolerance to counterfeiting
- Creative battle: Creative Commons versus traditional copyright
- Dutch game developer Playlogic bankrupt
- How copyright supports internet freedom
- US Government seeks societal input on balancing cybersecurity and innovation
- French CPD will send first warnings to downloaders by late September
- Dutch neighbouring rights collector SENA loses 35 million euro’s
- Hollywood is positive about young consumers' willingness to pay for digital content
- NZ’s three strikes policy; too soft or too harsh?
- Japanese virus 'punishes' filesharers
- Electronic Frontier Foundation lends alleged file-sharers a hand
- New Zealand author society pleads for internet levy
- Machinarium studio offers pirates amnesty
- Belgian ISP’s 25 largest downloaders
- Scanlation, comic piracy and the future of comic distribution
- Frenchman wants to frustrate Hadopi Act with trademark
- Viacom appeals summary judgement in YouTube case
- The fun is over for American students: unis take action against file-sharing
- DJs on piracy and digital music distribution
- Digital sales threaten supreme reign of large bookstores
- KickassTorrents moves servers abroad after visit from Ukrainian authorities
- Movie producer takes down Hitler parodies
- Public consultation of the E-Commerce Directive
- Judge awards whopping $89 million for infringement on World of Warcraft copyright
- Pink Floyd wants their entire CD’s online, no separate tracks
- Torrent platforms endorse artists, bundle their album with downloads
- BSA takes on software piracy in Asia
- Half of Norwegian streamers stop file-sharing
- After Wolverine yet another Fox film appears on BitTorrent before release
- Director BREIN personally hands over Amsterdam verdict to Pirate Bay founder
- Mubi offers quality movies as streams, also for the PS3
- Competition on Dutch cable delayed
- Bollywood concerned about piracy, too
- Music industry professionals interviewed about their thoughts on own future
- Innocent copyright infringement limits statutory damages
- Dutch Green Left party has concerns about the ACTA Treaty
- Dutch comments on ACTA internet consultation
- Dick van Engelen comments on Dutch Authors' Contract Rights Bill
- For moderate to heavy readers, e-reading reduces your ecological footprint
- YouTube to host movies for free in the UK
- Vodafone to provide (almost) free access to TV in Germany
- July
- Prince's ‘innovative’ model for music distribution
- EU’s consultation on netneutrality and open internet
- BREIN vs Ziggo & XS4All: A matter of principle?
- Finnish Supreme Court: BitTorrent admins assist in copyright infringement
- Finnish people now by law have right to access the ‘net
- Same tune for less
- ISPs and Hollywood: natural partners for new business models?
- Only paywalls for 'special content'
- How artists earn money in the download era: monitising friendships
- 64% prefer console games on disk over download
- Pirate Bay hacked, 4 million upload accounts exposed
- Copyright exceptions and fair use vs. contract law and CC licenses
- Belgian access providers not obliged to block Pirate Bay
- Journalists increasingly positive about digital future
- Judge decimates Tenenbaum damages, cuts them by 90%
- Rapid restaurant innovation despite lack of copyright
- Australian filtering law to be adjusted after consultation
- Brazil: technical protection measures may not restrict copyright exceptions
- French politicians not completely satisfied with three-strikes legislation
- Belgian publishers: taking copyright enforcement to the next level
- Peter Jenner: filesharing can’t be stopped, perhaps blanket licenses by ISPs?
- Parody exception? The Swedish Chef does 'Popcorn'
- Amsterdam court verdict confirms interlocutory injunction against The Pirate Bay
- Label owner: music industry needs to reform
- British label threatens file sharers with legal action
- BREAKING: Dutch BREIN loses trial over Pirate Bay block
- BREIN: Situation of lawlessness must end.
- HollandDoc abandons community site because of costs
- Recorded music: if you don’t want to pay, it may go away
- Nintendo wins case against Dutch mod-chips sellers
- US representatives unsatisfied with results of fighting piracy abroad
- CEO Codemasters philosophises about alternative to DRM
- German court of appeal: RapidShare does not have to filter content
- From pillar to post, enforcing copyright online in the Netherlands (BREIN vs Ziggo/XS4All)
- Infringing files outnumber legitimate content 297 to 1 on torrent sites
- Times’ paywall costs sites two thirds of readers
- Update: Infringing files outnumber legitimate content 297 to 1 on torrent sites
- Dutch draft bill aims to expand cybercrime enforcement
- Nintendo wins (again): R4 modchips banned in the UK
- Content filter enables longer clips on YouTube
- June
- Three strikes against The Pirate Bay and OpenBittorrent
- Three strikes against The Pirate Bay and OpenBittorrent
- test
- Pirate Bay fines hard to collect
- European ministers approve of Kroes’ Digital Agenda
- New American business model: demand a settlement to prevent copyright infringement lawsuit
- Usenet portal FTD acts unlawfully by publication of movies, says judge
- Preliminary draft to amend Dutch Copyright Act: authors' contract rights and copyright transfer after authors' death
- Ad firms lose control over online business due to bad quality and lack of technical know-how
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs discusses User Generated Content
- Future of Copyright debates with Dutch Pirate Party
- British Treasury publishes public spending data via BitTorrent
- IronMan comic simultaneously launched on paper and digital?
- Analysis of the Eyeworks vs. FTD case
- Market for Wii and DS has collapsed
- Tom Yorke: "the music industry is a sinking ship"
- Pirate Party: no seat, most popular in college towns
- EFF writes amicus brief about thousands of individual copyright lawsuits
- KPN cancels its all-you-can-eat internet for smartphones
- Armenia: two strikes - in jail!
- IP/WC news: Shakira's official World Cup song infringes on Cameroonian copyright
- Lady Gaga: accept free downloads, go touring!
- The Netherlands counts 6.1 million broadband connections (83.6 percent of households)
- The Times: online content behind a paywall
- Coffee and a newspaper
- Research says game industry revenues will rise significantly in the next five years
- Diversity of cultural expressions & copyright
- YouTube's creative eco system
- U.S. IP enforcement coordinator Espinel publishes plan against IP theft
- IFPI demands that Google no longer links to Pirate Bay website
- YouTube qualifies for Safe Harbor provisions and has no general monitoring obligation
- 3.5 million pirated DVDs seized from Russian storages
- Russian DVD copy-circuit cleaned out, St. Petersburg was next
- Marketshare Times websites plunge after compulsory registration
- Pirated live broadcasts grow as a threat to sports business
- Dutch government requests citizens to comment on ACTA texts
- Cybercrime facts & figures
- End in sight for the guerrilla between Big Entertainment and pirates?
- Copy On, and one day….
- Dutch Public Broadcasting starts pilot with P2P distribution
- May
- “Brein urges Ziggo to block The Pirate Bay”
- Dutch online rights group Bits of Freedom disagrees with govt plans on Net Neutrality
- Sales through digital channels increase worldwide, The Netherlands show lag
- European Union: how to boost the cultural and creative industries?
- BitTorrent seeders IP-addresses easily traced
- Why ACTA created its own platform
- Spotify is coming to the Netherlands
- Germanic anti-piracy groups jointly call for more attention for piracy
- Research: downloading generates more revenue for entertainment industry
- ‘Copyright for Creativity' declaration calls for a balanced European copyright
- Downloaders are willing to pay for easy accessible, legal content
- The chicken or the egg?
- Copyright on Twittering
- The creators’ perspective
- Software piracy on the rise
- Conclusion A-G: only levies on data carriers when private copy use is presumable
- SABAM wants a collective agreement with internet providers over copyright fees
- Gamers voluntarily donate 1.1 million for games
- Judge orders Cyber Bunker to stop internet access to Pirate Bay website
- Judge bans FTD to name copyrighted works on usenet forum
- American ISP flooded with identification requests
- Record labels win case against LimeWire
- Content providers stick to what they know with publishing for iPad
- Cyberbunker CEO predicts: “Pirate Bay only down for a few hours”
- New on YouTube: private videos
- Pirate Bay hosted by Pirate Party
- Hurt Locker producer will sue thousands of downloaders: furious about comments
- UPC director has no sympathy for downloaders
- Digital Agenda: Kroes presents action plan to boost Europe's prosperity and well-being
- Newspaper publishers not happy with British Library’s exploitation plans
- Most notorious download sites
- Swedish ISP turns to Supreme Court to protect identity of BitTorrent admin
- Three strikes against The Pirate Bay and OpenBittorrent
- China calls US piracy claims unfounded
- News Corp reveals new paywalls
- France and The Netherlands initiate plans for code of conduct to prevent internet censorship
- iTunes Store subject of U.S. antitrust investigation
- Downloading: right or infringement? The Big Download debate!
- Danish Supreme Court: access provider has to block access to Pirate Bay
- French anti-piracy association attacked by BitTorrent site supporters
- The Dutch Download Debate: a glass of water, toilet breaks, squatting and the (nonexistent) download ban
- Four centuries of newspaper searchable via Royal Library portal
- Ofcom presents concept code of conduct for tackling file-sharing
- Director sues almost 5000 alleged file sharers
- April
- Income from online advertising shrinks 12% for newspapers
- Chair of RIAA positive about the future, sees a world with ubiquitous music
- Hollywood studios ponder abandoning Spanish DVD market because of piracy
- Dutch social liberals want to reimburse rights holders through an Internet fee
- Piracy has become a name to be proud of
- Digital Economy Bill has passed House of Commons
- Dutch Usenet indexer MasterNZB terminates service
- Dutch Pirate Party presents list of candidates
- Dutch publishers to cooperate with Brein to counter e-book piracy
- Japanese newspaper only allows incoming links after approval
- Copyright working party discusses advice with parliamentary committee for Justice
- How much does a musician earn?
- More than half of American teens willing to pay for downloadable games
- Scareware tries to con file-sharers
- Commissioner Kroes plans public consultation on net neutrality
- Internet levies for downloading: a bad idea
- European Commission: ACTA does not target Internet piracy
- Pre-acquisition internal Google documents: YouTube “rogue enabler of content theft”
- Pirate Bay larger than ever, year after verdict
- Concept version of ACTA made public
- Irish High Court: voluntary graduated response is allowed
- e-Reader manufacturers feel the iPad heat and spring into action
- Google’s transparency: a good start, but could be better
- Fibre grows fast in The Netherlands, despite fierce competition
- India presents copyright reform bill
- Rhapsody’s new app allows offline storage
- Dutch ISP XS4ALL proposes to break stalemate copyright discussion by putting everything online
- Frequency auction for mobile broadband networks yield 2,6 million Euro in The Netherlands
- March
- More Americans read news online than in the papers
- Unconventional response to taking down Torrents.ru
- Pirate Bay ignores Dutch court order
- Interesting article about the nature of property and intellectual property
- Fighting game piracy, a brief history
- New Zealand proposes a three-strikes regime
- Pirate Party prepares for Dutch Parliamentary elections
- Access to ‘Net is human right, say 79% of respondents in BBC study
- GroenLinks launches campaign against making downloading illegal
- European Parliament insists on openness in ACTA
- Dutch Parliament declares copyright debate “controversial”
- OnLive postpones launch to June
- Is a neutral net really what we want?
- Dutch ministers find three-strikes policies “unacceptable”
- House of Lords approves Digital Economy Bill
- Commissioner Kroes emphasises importance of single digital market
- The shady side of the web: ddos attacks on banks, card fraud and bulletproof hosting of file-sharing
- MiniNova users leave the site on a massive scale after ‘big cleanup’
- Exploring the future of news media, an interview with prof. Robert Picard
- US entertainment sectors jointly files petition with gov’t stressing the importance of copyright enforcement
- Police arrest admins of Italian torrent site
- The dilemma of the enhanced e-books
- London High Court: Newzbin is not Google
- Webshops had rather publishers didn’t use DRM on e-books
- February
- Second version of Google Books settlement met with storm of criticism
- British music industry critical of mass file sharing lawsuits
- Rupert Murdoch positive about the future online
- P2pnet.net stops, can’t find funding to continue
- Australian ISP wins case against movie industry
- Bioware uses exclusive content against piracy and used games
- Net neutrality not an issue in Australia
- Study samples files available on torrent sites, find 1% of files to be non-infringing
- Spanish judges repeatedly rule against file sharing platforms
- Little data on effectiveness of regulation against counterfeit goods and piracy
- Studios experiment with earlier DVD release, cinemas enraged
- Norwegian court of appeal: Telenor not an accomplice in file sharing
- France votes for Internet filter
- TV-links’ admins acquitted of all charges, linking deemed mere conduit
- Distributor of mod chips needs to pay Nintendo damages, says Australian judge
- TenPages and Selexyz close deal
- File sharing is morally justifiable, says winning essay
- Crowdfunded music site Sellaband bankrupt
- Court orders RapidShare to stop facilitating the distribution of book titles
- Sellaband saved: acquired by German investor
- Dutch ACTA documents leak; European Parliament critical
- January
- Amazon’s e-books take off during Christmas
- Italian High Court clears the way for dealing with foreign torrent sites
- New standard for digital movie exchange
- Crytek: piracy is a problem for PC exclusive games
- Dutch Royal Library to digitise the Dutch books, magazines and newspapers
- President Sarkozy on stimulating legal online offer of entertainment
- Bono angry with file-sharers and ISPs
- Commissioner-designate Kroes heard on ACTA-standpoint
- Swedish ISP: IPRED contradicts EU privacy laws
- Italian High Court: public prosecutor may order ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
- File sharing through corporate networks up by 55%
- French Supreme Court finds ISP Tiscali liable for copyright infringement
- Judge drastically lowers damages Jammie Thomas
- Geohot strikes again! Claims to have made a complete PS3 hack
- Senator wants a Belgian Hadopi
- HP and major labels open online music service for Europe
- Chinese search engine cleared of copyright infringement charges
- December
- 2009
- December
- European ISPs voice concern over ACTA
- British lawyers to target individual file-sharers
- Does Mininova verdict clarify the rules for next generation of torrent portals?
- DVD piracy “just like printing money”
- Internet piracy viewed as part of a historic tradition of defending public goods
- Apple acquires streaming music service Lala
- Pirate Bay will not appeal in case against BREIN
- Consumer Association organises Twitter #downloaddebate
- EU ratifies “old” copyright treaties
- France will not rely on Google for digitisation of cultural goods
- MPA chairman testifies in US Congress: “protection of IP is our most important issue”
- UK Music Industry: unlicensed music consumption evolves beyond p2p
- French court rules against Google in Books case
- Broadband Internet grows in spite of economic crisis
- Buma/Stemra and YouTube close deal on licenses
- China is coming down hard on torrent sites
- Music industry settlement with cyberlockers
- P2p use increases, at least with muTorrent
- Apple plans to stream the latest TV series to subscribers
- November
- Dutch gov’t plans to make file-sharing illegal
- Is Google the new Microsoft?
- French artists protest the Hadopi law
- Hollywood wants to make new movies rapidly accessible online
- Dutch Parliament wants to stimulate implementation of fibreglass networks
- Scandinavian pirates had a good weekend
- Murdoch’s news sites: Google needs to wait at the door
- BREIN pleads for inclusion of online environment in ACTA
- Microsoft means business by banning modded consoles
- Competition on cable networks would violate copyright
- EFF mapping copyright systems all over the world
- Internet becoming a viable alternative for broadcasted TV
- Verizon to forward RIAA notices to file-sharing customers
- Creative Commons holiday guide: “gifts that won’t get you sued”
- Supreme Court in South Korea bans tools to play pirated games
- Piracy reduces market for African productions
- Digital Economy Bill presented, ISPs voice criticism
- Microsoft opens the battle for news
- As e-readers become mainstream, so does pirating e-books
- Mininova closes part of the site that offers infringing content
- Europeana to be boosted, could develop into a serious alternative to Google Books
- October
- Dutch Secretary of Culture and Media presents plan to save newspapers
- Survey reveals effects of Swedish anti-piracy law
- Bits of Freedom not impressed with Buma/Stemra’s new licences
- More details emerge on streaming game service OnLive
- There’s no passing BREIN: hosting providers urged to take down The Pirate Bay
- GGF acknowledges Pirate Bay acquisition seriously in danger
- Buma/Stemra spares individual web users
- UseNeXT threatens with steps after critical blog post
- Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde accuses BREIN of forging evidence
- Spain to form interministerial committee to fight piracy
- Founders KaZaA develop subscription based music service
- Hearing on the report of the Copyright working party
- Google extends services, becomes bookstore
- European Union closes deal with music industry on online distribution of music
- Pirates find music worth less than others do, study finds
- Microsoft bans players with illegal copies from Xbox Live – permanently
- Play movies on any platform with new Disney service
- European Parliament allows strong anti piracy policies
- Dutch judge again rules in favour of BREIN in Pirate Bay case
- Britain will follow France in adopting graduated response
- The Who to star in their own music game
- September
- Business Software Alliance takes position in piracy debate
- Irish ISP Eircom blocks access to The Pirate Bay
- Creative Commons and Buma together for one more year
- “YouTube to start movie rental service”
- Belgian cable operator suspends new on demand service
- Google concedes to European publishers in book project
- Europe leads in watching TV through the Internet
- Game studio flushes out pirates
- GGF delisted from Swedish stock market
- Adult entertainment studios displeased with anti-piracy approach South Korea
- Europe’s online library is taking shape
- France’s National Assembly adopts three strikes bill
- “Three strikes” remains controversial in the UK
- BBC to use DRM on its HD channels
- MPAA calls for protection of digital content in FCC workshop
- People don’t want to pay for online access to news, study says
- New Pirate Bay judge biased… Brokep angry
- Foundations better off with open copyright alternatives
- Lily Allen to turn her back on music career
- Spanish court takes firm pro-copyright steps
- Featured Artists Coalition: P2P is a marketing channel
- Start up publisher experiments with new ways
- August
- Consumer association disappointed by ruling The Pirate Bay
- Jury rules: Tenenbaum needs to pay $675.000 in damages
- Digital generation averse to paying for online content
- “ISPs throttle connection on own accord”
- Netflix to expand services to Wii and iPhone
- Swedish anti-piracy law appears to have permanent effect
- ThePirateBay to oppose BREIN after all
- YouTube removes Belgian music videos
- Studios successfully moved for injunction against DVD copying software
- Downloading youth willing to pay for good service, study concludes
- Treyarch to ban console modders
- BBC's former iPlayer director says IP needs to be better protected
- British Secretary of State tough on file sharing
- Appeal against Dutch p2p-sites to start after two years
- Singapore studies possibilities for a ‘three strikes' law
- Proposal GGF: rights holders to take illegal content TPB down themselves
- Trading in GGF shares stopped, company CEO facing scrutiny
- Britain to adopt three strikes regulation after all
- Court considers Mininova unlawful
- UPC throttles traffic for twelve hours a day
- Shareholder GGF support Pirate Bay take over
- July
- RIAA wins court victory against Usenet.com
- US judge: save newspapers with a ban on links
- Online video service Joost takes a different approach
- Jammie Thomas will appeal 2 million dollar verdict
- Hadopi 2.0 moves to French Senate
- Dutch hosting provider to hand over client data, judges Austrian court
- Mininova verdict postponed to 26th of August
- Spanish judge: P2P sites not illegal in principle
- Reding aims at revising EU's market for digital content
- Publishers urge legislators to supervise the online spreading of news
- Tenenbaum cannot claim fair use, argues RIAA
- Tide is turning for file-sharing in Sweden
- British teens warm up to streaming music
- BREIN wants court to ban The Pirate Bay's site in the Netherlands
- Summary of the proceedings of BREIN versus The Pirate Bay
- Kazaa resurrected as subscription service
- Senior New Zealand politician launches plans to compensate copyright holders
- Belgian court to prosecute copyright distributor
- British ISP ceases to directly cut off pirates
- Nigerian music industry threatens with hunger strike to counter piracy
- The A.P. uses DRM to protect news
- Movie industry versus The Pirate Bay, part two
- The Pirate Bay has to cease activities in the Netherlands
- Despite doubts and controversy, GGF says to see Pirate Bay deal through
- June
- FTD legal? Probably not...
- Google to sell e-books, EU investigates books.google.com
- Dutch parliamentary working group: downloading should become illegal in the Netherlands
- Dutch musicians and actors plead for home copy fee for MP3 players
- BREIN summons The Pirate Bay to court via Twitter and Facebook
- Pirate Bay Judge not biased
- Opinion: File-sharing: the need for a cultural shift and a long term perspective
- Brein forces Usenetbase offline
- Pirates to jump ship: The Pirate Bay sells out to GGF
- May
- April
- Opinion: Why can web 2.0 companies hide behind ISP safe harbour exceptions?
- Why the Pirate Bay isn't like Google...
- The legal position of news aggregators
- Spanish man sentenced to 6 months in jail for operating filesharing site
- French reject three strikes law
- Pirate Bay admins found guilty, sentenced to a year in prison
- New anti-piracy law in Sweden boosts sales of legal content
- YouTube to provide premium content
- ISPs happy with Pirate Bay verdict
- The Pirate Bay trial fallout
- The Pirate Google: Google liable for copyright infringement?
- Taiwan introduces Three Strikes legislation
- March
- Movie piracy funds criminal organisations and terrorists
- Technical measures to combat piracy (Part I)
- Technical measures (part II): URL blocking
- Technical measures (part III): Protocol and port blocking
- Technical measures (part IV): bandwidth shaping
- Mininova: 1 million euros in revenue
- Ruling against Dutch service provider might impact Mininova
- Technical measures (part V): content identification
- Technical measures (part VI): conclusions
- British government asks for input on proposed Copyright Agency
- Bono critical about file-sharing, warns file-sharers
- Pirate Bay\'s Peter Sunde predicts EPIC WIN
- Study: CD sales decline, digital downloads on the rise
- February
- Netflix Xbox Live service huge success
- Huge Polish ‘Masterbox' piracy ring busted
- Opinion: Does text-to-speech qualify as a derivative work?
- Insider Interview: A closer look at file-sharing
- 50% of the Pirate Bay charges dropped
- Content filtering: good or bad?
- Watermark technology leads to arrest of PreVail cammer
- Youtube goes ‘offline'
- Pirate Bay lawyer says Pirate Bay is a ‘mere conduit'
- Abba singer chastizes downloaders
- Norwegian minister wants to legalize file-sharing
- iPhone apps set to redefine music promotion
- Ambitious and controversial French anti-piracy bill nearing completion
- These Robin Hoods are no heroes
- Spotify: a real alternative to piracy?
- New Zealand postpones ‘three strikes' law
- TV.com streams full length TV-shows on web… and iPhone
- Selling R4 \'back up\' device illegal in Japan
- January
- CD sales in the United States down in 2008
- Jail sentences for Chinese piracy group
- Internet user surfs the web for an average of 13 hours weekly
- 7 billion Mininova downloads in 2008
- Bigger turnover for games than for movies in Britain
- Apple to sell DRM free songs
- Belgium extends copy tax
- The price of music
- MovieX.info soap continues…
- Insider Interview: Usenet expert on file sharing
- 20 percent of all music sales are downloads
- Study examines pros and cons of file sharing
- December
- 2008
- December
- New version of Bittorrent threatens normal internet use
- Valve president bashes DRM
- Digital content sector growing fast in Spain
- Dutch Ministry of Education to stimulate teacher generated content
- UK launches major anti-piracy campaign
- Pirates hijack Amazon.com
- Australian police charge MovieX with copyright infringement and money laundering
- Youtube to license 25,000 indy songs
- Wikipedia-page blocked by British providers
- Freedom of speech and the pursuit as art as cheap excuse for facilitating piracy?
- German download market growing rapidly
- BREIN forces Bulgarian Bittorrent trackers out of Holland
- Fan edits: praise or piracy?
- Bittorrent closes down online store
- Virgin Media to throttle excessive Bittorrent traffic
- Film and TV producers call for action to stop illegal file-sharing
- BREIN takes out another topsite
- New York governor wants to tax downloads
- Sharereactor back online… for now?
- An introduction to the future of copyright
- RIAA changes anti-piracy strategy
- Study: Sweden has 700,000 file sharers
- Study: Long Tail economics do not apply to music
- Consumers prefer streaming over downloads
- UK government reviewing radical new anti-piracy plan
- Copyright in 2020
- RIAA loses mistrial appeal in Thomas case
- November
- Bittorrent to close download service, lays off staff
- Warner Bros. pulls DVD marketing and distribution from South Korea
- Microsoft bans over 7,000 users from Xbox Live
- WIPO discusses future of copyright
- Torrentsite TorrentValley shut down by Bulgarian authorities
- Tesco launches online movie download service
- European Cultural heritage library slashdots
- Audience for illegal newspaper articles 1.5 times bigger than official readership
- British pirate convicted to three years in prison
- P2P networks face threat from dubious advertisers
- Sonofon must block access to the Piratebay
- Symantec examines pirate activity in the underground economy
- Digital sales surpass CD sales for major record label Atlantic
- Swedish copyright law a joke according to filmmakers
- BREIN takes down topsite TVL
- World of Goo's 90% piracy rate sheds light on normative anti-copyright arguments
- Council removes De Bono amendment from Telecomspackage
- December